Healing through Sound

Foreword by Rosemary Gladstar

Preface
Why We Sound

Sound as an Evolutionary Possibility | Seeds of Sound Frequency | Root Patterns

Introduction
The Lineage of Sound Healing

The Teachings of the Grandmothers | Grandma Baggott | A View from the Porch: Observing What Is in Front of Me | Do I See the Disconnect? | Seeing the World as Energy | Tapping the Emotional Rhythm | She’s Got the Nerves | Awakening to a Larger Purpose

Chapter 1
It’s All in the Listening

The Issues Are in the Tissues | The Formula Is Revealed | We Sound to Get Quiet Enough to Listen If | You Love Something Enough | Client Session: Mending the Body Is in the Listening | Trusting the Innate Wisdom of the Body | Listening and Sounding the Soul Signatures | Keys to Perception | Physicality of Codependency | The Teachings of the Trees | How to Mind My Own Business | Overview of the Oak Tree's Sacred Teachings

Chapter 2
The Power of the Hum

Keys to Accessing the Humming Voice | Acceptance of What Is—The Key to Transformation | The Hum Soothes and Reduces Stress | Go with the Flow! | Physical Benefits of Humming | The Hum as Resonance Protection | The Hum as Healer | Energetic Feng Shui | Hum as Meditation | Trust and Not Knowing

Chapter 3
Vocabulary of Sounds

The Wisdom of Vowels | The Sound Palette—The Vocabulary of Sounds | Client Session: Soothing Trauma | Aerobic Sounds—Sounding and Emptying the Inner Noise

Chapter 4
Emptying

Whatever Is Unexpressed Runs the Show | When Do We Need to Empty? | The Jaw—The First Emptying Gate | The Hum as Integrator and Closing Sound | Sound Increases Our Capacity for Breathing | Exploring Sound and Breath Possibilities | Practice Reclaiming Our Exhale | Sound as a Prayer | Health Benefits of the Sounds of Laughter

Chapter 5
Honoring the Body’s Innate Wisdom

The Evolutionary Possibility of Bodywork | Our Fluid Body | Client Session: Listening to the Layers of Grief | Deep Listening | Sound and the Physical/Emotional Body

Chapter 6
Aligning and Tuning the Body

Sound Changes the Physical Form | Encodements of Forgotten Wisdom | Your Body as Your Teaching Laboratory | Growing Heartful Possibilities | Listening to the Rhythms | Keys for Listening to the Rhythms | The Physicality of Amnesia and Memory | Staying Alive and Humane | May I Become Good Compost

Chapter 7
The Heart and the Gut of the Matter

Our Energetic Roots in History | The Shaping of Our Listening | A Curved Listening | Plugging into Earth, Ground Force Reaction | Grounding and Stabilizing Our Circuitry | Let Your Feet Brain Talk to Your Heart Brain | Journey into the Inner Terrain | Client Session: The Language of the Heart | Surrender to Not Knowing | Client Session: Reconnection with the Inner Terrain | The Mysterious Nervous System | Parasympathetic Rhythms of Breath and Sound | Let Your Gut Brain Talk to Your Head Brain | Client Session: Myself, Shingles, and the Power of the Silent Hum

Chapter 8
Dissonance and Shadow Work

Love Songs to the Shadow | The Collective Shadow | Life Magazine | Sound Transforms the Blues to Gold | Emotional Wound | Revealing What Is Not Mine | Loving Self-Care Made Simple | The Accuracy of Sound as Bodywork | Harmonics to Dissonance | What Is Your Form of Perceiving? | Formulas for the Emotional Body | Client Session: Healing Deep Trauma

Chapter 9
Sound as a Spiritual Solution

Bali: Sing a Love Song to Your Shadow | Loving Our Many Characters | The Spiritual Significance of Music | The Power of Sound and Vibration Being Made Visible

Epilogue
The Mythology of Awakening the Feminine Divine

Appendix 1
Additional Sound Vocabulary

Appendix 2
Dr. Joseph Liss

Appendix 3
Rest Assured: Parasympathetic Resonance Album

Exercise Overview

References

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Vickie Dodd, M.A., has been a sound healing therapist, bodyworker, workshop leader, musician, and internationally recognized pioneer of healing through sound for more than 50 years. She has collaborated with Don Campbell and is an adjunct faculty member at the Globe Institute in San Francisco. Vickie lives in Port Angeles, Washington.

“Vickie Dodd is one of the true pioneering figures in the field of sound healing. Her work is brilliant—she is a monumental healer who uses sound and an exceptional teacher whose work embraces the true embodiment of sound. Now, finally, for those who know her extraordinary wisdom and abilities, she has produced a book. It’s what we’ve all been waiting for. Healing through Sound encompasses all the important aspects of how our own sounds can be used as a transformational and therapeutic modality. Enjoy this amazing journey into the world of sound healing with Vickie Dodd as your guide. You’ll be glad you did. Get this book now! It is a most important addition to anyone’s library.” Andi and Jonathan Goldman, sound experts and authors of The Humming Effect

“Vickie Dodd, in her journey as a physical and spiritual healer, has gathered the results of the decades of her creating, searching, and re-searching into this magnificent book of full-body, sound, rhythm, and heartful meditation. As a body percussionist, poet, and vocalist, I have embraced wholeheartedly the whole-force physical, mental, and spiritual exercises she has shared in this book and found them to be transforming. Her call for awakening to the entire energetic field has been heard and felt, and I have responded.” Brenda Bufalino, jazz and tap dancer, choreographer, singer, and poet

“The titles of the chapters and their content vibrate at the higher expectations of this advancing new age. Vickie Dodd’s well-drenched understanding of sound as a solution for real honest healing supports our readiness to shift more committedly to the creative and intentional use of sound and sounding as a personal and interpersonal sustainable health practice.” LARAAJI, musician and founder of Ananda Ashram

“I have been in the healing arts field for several decades and I had dabbled in sound such as mantras and Om, but I had never thought of using sound or my voice for my own physical and mental healing. This work that Vickie Dodd is presenting is helpful to anyone in the healing arts. On almost every page there are workable, easy-to-understand tools and methods that can aid anyone. This is a workbook, a textbook, and a roadmap to profound, breakthrough techniques for healing others and self. For the past few months I have been using my voice daily to release stress and align my emotional well-being. My voice is teaching me.” Ralph “Corky” Matson, body-mind consultant and author of Prodigious Son: A Memoir of Miracles

“This is a masterful work deserving of a place in every library committed to the authentic exploration of sound as an essential healing modality. Vickie Dodd is not only a pioneer in this field, but one of the most authentically unique and powerful of its voices. In a time when so many superficially explore this terrain, her integrity and alignment with Divine Source make it a higher calling and a true North Star for any serious student or practitioner seeking genuine wisdom and guidance.” Arji “OceAnanda” Cakouros, sound healer, musician, and Usui Reiki master

“I have been experimenting with sound healing on and off for years with singing bowls and more. . . . Even so, nothing prepared me for the experiences of healing I received as I began implementing Vickie Dodd’s sounding tool as outlined in this book. Her work and guidance has opened up a whole new connection to myself in the present. I hummed, I toned, I followed her teachings as I read. I learned, I grew, and I surrendered as the tones began to tone me, unraveling my stress and traumas and taking me to a deeper acceptance of myself. I believe that this book is a must-read for all who seek to embrace all of themselves, all of life and its infinite possibilities. The tool? Our own voice.” Janet Hudonjorgensen, energetic healer

HOLISTIC HEALTH / SOUND HEALING

Finding Your Unique Soundprint

You are made of sound—listen deeply to the rhythms and stories of your audible body that ask to be noticed and integrated. With the power of the voice, you can heal your body layer by layer, awakening your cells while releasing long-held tensions, stress, and emotional trauma.

In this guide, pioneer sound healer Vickie Dodd shares her system for addressing trauma locked in the physical body with the potent healing quality of sound. Touching on the functions of the nervous system and the parasympathetic breath, she explains how sound travels the inner pathways of the body, eliciting responses from the memory of tissues and muscles while bypassing the mind. Sound can change the body’s tissues, rearrange posture, and release undigested emotional experiences. With experiential exercises, you can explore how to listen precisely and discover the rhythms of the areas of the body to be treated as well as how to intuit the sounds required for healing—your unique soundprint. Singing love songs to your shadow, you will transform negative patterns into harmonious ones and discover the grace and peace that arise as your body’s tales and tissues come to rest. Sound truly allows you to dialogue effectively with your body for release, restoration, and renewed vitality.

“Vickie Dodd is one of the true pioneering gures in the eld of sound healing. Her work is brilliant—she is a monumental healer who uses sound and an exceptional teacher whose work embraces the true embodiment of sound. . . . Healing through Sound encompasses all the important aspects of how our own sounds can be used as a transformational and therapeutic modality.”
–Andi and Jonathan Goldman, sound experts and authors of The Humming Effect

VICKIE DODD, M.A., has been a sound healing therapist, bodyworker, workshop leader, musician, and internationally recognized pioneer of healing through sound for more than 50 years. She has collaborated with Don Campbell and is an adjunct faculty member at the Globe Institute in San Francisco. Vickie lives in Port Angeles, Washington.